Keilim 13:4 - 13:5

מגריפה (ladle/shovel) – made to remove the ashes from the double-stove and from the oven, but when its blade was removed, its handle remained which is made in the form of a mallet of blacksmiths. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.

מגירה (saw) – it is a fattened ox (see Psalms 69:32 and many other examples throughout Scripture) in the language of Scripture, SIGA in the foreign tongue.

אחת מבינתיים טהורה – if he removed from one tooth from all that have two teeth, it is impossible to anymore to drag any further, therefore it is is ritually pure and is not appropriate for use.

נשתייר בה – from the complete teeth the measurement of a סיט/the distance between the tip of the thumb and the index finger when held apart in one place.

טמאה – the saw [is ritually impure]. For with that full extent of the distance between the tip of the thumb and the index finger when held apart which is complete is appropriate for dragging. And the measurement of the full extent of the distance between the tip of the thumb and the index finger when held apart, all what is possible for a person to distance between the finger and the forearm.

מעצד (adze)– an iron vessel that the carpenter planes the boards.. DOLDORA in the foreign language.

איזמל – a small razor that one circumcises a baby with. The Aramaic translation of חרבות צורים/flint knives (see Joshua 5:2-3) which is “sharp knives.”

והמפסלת (plane/sculptor’s chisel) – sharp/pointed iron that is fixed within wood and they take it and bring it over the board and smooth it out. It is the [Scriptural] language of (Exodus 34:1): “"פסל לך/”Carve for yourself.”

מקדח (borer – used by carpenters) – a vessel/utensil that they make holes/perforate boards.

שנפגמו (which have been damaged) – that were split/broken apart.

ניטל חיסומן (if their steel-edge is worn off) – in the mouth of the sword and in the mouth of the knife and in the mouth of a hatchet/mattock and in the thin part of the borer they place good and considered iron, ATZALAV in the foreign tongue, and they muzzle their mouths with it in order that it will be sharp/pointed to cut/sever well, and this is called, חיסומן/their steel-edge.

והרוקני (the plane [the wooden body] by itself) – the wood that the sculptor’s chisel/plane is fixed in it is called רוקני. But if the iron was worn off that makes ritually impure and smoothens, and the wood remains alone without iron, it is ritually pure.

חרירה (the eye-needle) – like its hole. The hole that one threads/brings the thread through (see also Tractate Shabbat 52b for a similar expression).

עוקצה (whose point is broken off) – the sharp head that they bring into the clothing when they sew. Like the peduncle of a fig (that is attached to the tree when it is cut off).

אם המתינה למתוח (if he made it into a stretching pin) – it is the manner of weavers that take a broken needle and place it into the rim of the cloth in order to stretch its rims.

מחט של סקאים (sack-maker’s needle) – a large needle that they sew with it the sacks that are made from the hair of goats and similar animals from the thick clothing.

שהוא כותב בה – on a tablet of wax.

של מתוח – if he prepared to stretch with it the rim of the cloth in the manner that the weavers do.

בין כך ובין כך טמאה – for it is appropriate for stretching without its point and without its eye [of the needle].

אם מעכבת את התפירה – that he is unable to sew with it because of the rust. But there are those who interpret, all the while that the rust makes a known impression in the cloth, that is the delaying of sewing, and it is ritually pure, and this is implied in the Chapter [Five of Tractate Shabbat], “With what does a beast [go out on the Sabbath – folio 52b].”

צנורא – a curved small fork at its head and it is customary to turn over the meat with it over the coals, but some of them are small that they trim the wicks with them and cleanse/wipe off the candles. But when it is straightened/flattened it is like a needle whose needle-eye or point is removed and it is ritually pure.